2009-12-15

AM Roundup December 15th, 2009

This is truly a Slow Tuesday for business and financial news. Everyone is holding their breath for the release of key indicators later in the week. I would recommend using today to review and relax.

Best Read:
Male Employment Hits Record Low


The Gist: "This means that, as of November, 19.4% of American men in their prime working years didn't have jobs. By this measure, the current job situation (for men, at least) is much, much worse than in any downturn since the BLS started measuring this stuff in 1948. Either that or there are just a lot more stay-at-home dads, grad students, and men who voluntarily spend their days playing golf..."

AM ROUNDUP

For an excellent "edu-tainment" read this morning, check out "10 Biggest White Collar Crimes in History"...

...monster conglomerate bank Societe General gives their clients Advice on Surviving the Coming Crash...

...valuable details in a Bloomberg update of an earlier story: Banks Take Losses on Short Sales...

...John Robb offers a typically excellent and crisp article on Adaptive Leadership...

...and for infographics: nothing today is going to top the absurd complexity of The US Military's Afghanistan Plan in One Huge Chart. Or skip the propaganda and just view the image itself by clicking it:

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